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From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
To: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>, devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>,
	Zhiguang Liu <zhiguang.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: use normal register init in ARM SetJump implementations
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:16:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efab6bcf-bab6-c5da-ea63-c0d55beaea9b@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001183712.1738-4-leif@nuviainc.com>

On 10/1/20 8:37 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> There may be architectures on which there are benefits to
>    eor r0, r0(, r0)
> but ARM was never one of them. Change to more readable
>    mov r0, #0
> instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
> ---
>   MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.S   | 2 +-
>   MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.asm | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.S b/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.S
> index 54b11ad2197c..407df5f41ac5 100644
> --- a/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.S
> +++ b/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.S
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ ASM_PFX(SetJump):
>     pop   {r0, lr}
>     mov   r3, r13
>     stmia r0, {r3-r12,r14}
> -  eor   r0, r0, r0
> +  mov   r0, #0

Actually, 'movs r0, #0' produces a smaller opcode here when building in 
Thumb2 mode :-)


>     bx    lr
>   
>   #/**
> diff --git a/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.asm b/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.asm
> index 6d47033975f2..3a45f045460a 100644
> --- a/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.asm
> +++ b/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/Arm/SetJumpLongJump.asm
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ SetJump
>     POP  {R0, LR}
>     MOV  R3, R13
>     STM  R0, {R3-R12,R14}
> -  EOR  R0, R0
> +  MOV  RO, #0
>     BX   LR
>   
>   ;/**
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 18:37 [PATCH 0/5] MdePkg: various fixes to ARM/AArch64 SetJump/LongJump Leif Lindholm
2020-10-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 1/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: fix comments in ARM* SetJump/LongJump implementations Leif Lindholm
2020-10-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 2/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: add ASSERT in ARM* SetJump implementations Leif Lindholm
2020-10-01 20:49   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-01 20:55     ` Leif Lindholm
2020-10-01 20:58       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: use normal register init in ARM " Leif Lindholm
2020-10-05  8:17   ` [edk2-devel] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-13 12:16   ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2020-10-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 4/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: correct register sizes in AArch64 SetJump/LongJump Leif Lindholm
2020-10-05  8:19   ` [edk2-devel] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-10-01 18:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] MdePkg/BaseLib: ensure ARM LongJump never returns 0 Leif Lindholm

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